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"And I've been round it no times at all," cried Peterkin, with an impudent wink of his eye, "an' that time I wos blow'd inside out!" Nevertheless, we passed the dreaded cape without much rough weather, and, in the course of a few weeks afterwards, were sailing gently, before a warm tropical breeze, over the Pacific Ocean.
I'd rather mount the top-gallant of the good ship Providence in the fiercest Nor-wester that ever blow'd, than follow such a lubberly tack."
When we approached Cape Horn, at the southern extremity of America, the weather became very cold and stormy, and the sailors began to tell stories about the furious gales and the dangers of that terrible cape. "Cape Horn," said one, "is the most horrible headland I ever doubled. I've sailed round it twice already, and both times the ship was a'most blow'd out o' the water."
"Not so sure o' that, doctor," said Johnson; "the cave is at all events dry, and a good stronghold in case of a visit from pirates." "But pirates what have bin blow'd to atoms," said Slagg, "ain't likely to turn up again, are they?" "That's so, lad; but some of their friends might pay us a visit, you know." "I think not," rejoined Sam; "there is honour among thieves here, no doubt, as elsewhere.
The cook, who was in the drawin'-room passage, she was blow'd down stairs; the workman as opened the little door, he was blow'd flat on his back; an' the missis, as was standin' with her back to a door, she was lifted off her legs and blow'd right through the doorway into a bedroom." "Gracious!" exclaimed the horrified Mrs Denman, "was she killed?" "No, ma'am, she warn't killed.
We got it under at last, early this morning." "This morning?" "Yes, sir. It blow'd up about two hours arter you left for London, an' we've bin at it ever since. We was so glad your mother was away, sir, for it did make an uncommon crack. I was just sayin' to cook, not 'alf an hour since, the master would have enjoyed that, he would; it was such a crusher." "Any of of the torpedo left, Lancey?"
"So am I," remarked the sailor, "thankful to think that I've got it over at last so easy too!" "Why, what do you mean?" "I means, doctor, that I've gone the whole round o' human possibilities now leastwise I think so and am alive to tell it! I've bin shot, an' stabbed, an' drownded all but an' now I've bin blow'd up!"
I've often ate a hearty supper, and woke up in the mornin' as hungry as if I'm gone to my bunk without a bite. Well, it an't no use o' me tryin' to sleep as I feel now, blow'd if it is! My belly calls out loud enough to keep old Morphis himself from nappin', and there an't a morsel o' anything. More than forty hours have passed since I ate that last quarter biscuit.
"Das so, massa, an' what hasn't bin bu'nt up has bin blow'd up!" remarked the negro. "Looks very like it, Moses, unless that is a haze which enshrouds the rest of the island," rejoined the other, shading his eyes with his hands.
He vas passionate, and did lose his 'ead; and vas blow'd up vid bigness. Whereupon Croll made an action as though he were a frog swelling himself to the dimensions of an ox. ''E bursted himself, Mr Fisker. 'E vas a great man; but the greater he grew he vas always less and less vise.
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